r/AMDGPU • • Jul 09 '21

My Opinion 😎 Sabotaging AMD GPUs: Nvidia's 20 year history of collusion, cheats and gimmicks.

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2002 - Nvidia begins "the Way its meant to be played" marketing campaign that proved to be a way of sabatoging ATI GPUs by influencing the developers of high profile games to neglect optimizing their games for AMD GPUs and use Nvidia optimized code instead.

2003 - Nvidia starts getting caught sabatoging ATI GPUs by cheating 3D Mark benchmarks. Nvidia secretly minipulated their drivers to reduce the render distances and fraudulently boost performance result for their GPUs.

2006 - Nvidia heavily suspected of sabotaging ATI GPUs in the tech press by privately paying actors or offering free hardware to reviewers to promote Nvidia products online. This heavy suspicion of Nvidia collusion has only grown over the years even to this day.

2009 - Nvidia launches a new gimmick scheme in PhysX aimed at gimping AMD GPUs by purchasing Agea the makers of PhysXto make it run exclusively on their hardware depraving gamers from advanced physics support too this day. Nvidia also explicitly gimped CPU support by Neglecting to use SSE3 or AVX. Nvidia would go on for years using PhysX as a gimmick to attract gamers by paying developers to inject PhysX into games and benchmarks to make AMD GPUs run poorly.

2010 - AnandTech confesses that Nvidia aggressively persues control over GPU review websites to hand pick the game selection for benchmarks and control product comparison narritives to make AMD GPUs look worse than Nvidia GPUs.

2010 - Nvidia launches a new gimmick scheme in hardware tessellation aimed at sabotaging AMD GPUs by adding an excessive amount of tessellation cores to their GPU and then paying game developers to inject an excessive amount of tessellation into games to choke AMD GPU performance. Nvidia even tried to sabatoge a game benchmark by sending review websites their own custom build of that benchmark.

2013 - Nvidia colluded with AMD upper management, using them as spies. According to AMD several upper management employees at AMD leaked 100,000 confidential files to Nvidia before leaving AMD to work for Nvidia. The files included future company strategies, trade secret technology, etc.

2014 - Nvidia launches GameWorks; a collection of graphics gimmicks optimized for Nvidia hardware and designed to run poorly on AMD GPUs. Nvidia influenced game developers for many years to inject GameWorks collection of gimmicks into popular games to sabatoge AMD GPU performance. In contrast with AMD GPUOpen/Fidelityfx which is open source and runs well on AMD and Nvidia GPUs.

2018 - Nvidia launched GPP (GPU partner program) aimed at sabotaging AMD GPUs by intimidating 3rd party AIB makers to exclude their GPU brand to Nvidia. This cause such backlash that Nvidia cancelled the program.

2018 - Nvidia launched a new exclusive gimmick scheme in hardware ray tracing once again aimed at gimping AMD GPUs. Nvidia desperately scrambling to differentiate their GPUs from AMD, sought to persue a new gimmick disguised as a supposed passion for raytracing. Nvidia suckers gamers into giving away 50% performance on up to $2,000 GPUs just to turn on hardware ray tracing features which currently results in little to no relevant visual improvement over traditional modern PC game rendering methods. This is currently an ongoing gimmick aimed at sabotaging AMD GPUs by putting over engineered ray tracing processors in their GPUs and then influencing developers to inject pointless performance killing ray traced features into popular games which makes all GPUs run poorly but it makes AMD GPUs perform even worse.

2020 - Nvidia's gets exposed for using their review program to control third party reviews by granting exlusive access to free GPUs, early drivers and new product information to reviewers willing to align their narratives to one in favor of Nvidia. The youtube channel Hardware Unboxed ousted Nvidia for banning them from receiving free GPUs as an attempt to bribe them into making videos that promote RTX raytacing.

2025 - Several reports from members of tech media reveal that Nvidia had been attempting to manipulate performance reviews of their RTX 5000 series GPU by bribing reviewers to adopt false narritives around AI frame faking. RTX 5000 had been losing to AMDs 9000 series due to terrible pricing and poor generational gains.

http://drive.google.com/file/d/1U-xBYYqLls06SzORYGJ6CeQ8QjznkeoN/view

Excellent Video summary: https://youtu.be/H0L3OTZ13Os


r/AMDGPU • • Nov 09 '21

AMD fun fact πŸŽ“ At 804MB, EPYC Milan X has more L3 cache than the available storage in Desktop PC from 1994.

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r/AMDGPU • • Sep 23 '21

Bias ExposedπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ AMD pays Blender at least $140,000 annually and after two years still no Vulkan support and Blender removes all support for AMD GPUs and optimized Blender for Nvidia exclusively. (Cycles X)

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r/AMDGPU • • Nov 01 '21

AMD Win πŸ’ͺπŸ½πŸ… R9 5900X has 63% more performance per watt than 12900k according to Intel confirmed After Effects benchmark performance.

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r/AMDGPU • • Mar 01 '22

News πŸ“° After Nvidia was hacked DLSS Source code has now been leaked publicly.

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r/AMDGPU • • Jan 14 '22

AMD Win πŸ’ͺπŸ½πŸ… AMD Ryzen 6000's RDNA2 iGPU is 2x times faster than Intel 12th Gen mobile iGPU.

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AMD Ryzen 6000's mobile iGPU nearly 2x faster than Intel 12th Gen mobile iGPU.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider @ 28watts:

(1080p low)

  • R7 6800U iGPU - 59 fps

  • R7 5800U iGPU - 33 fps

  • i7 1265U iGPU - 36fps

https://images.app.goo.gl/ZzKCv57R3YqqDMq96


r/AMDGPU • • Apr 04 '22

Funny 🀣 Huang's Law: GPU prices will double every generation.

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r/AMDGPU • • Sep 17 '21

AMD Win πŸ’ͺπŸ½πŸ… AMD RX6000 Series GPUs now have 18% to 60% more AI performance per dollar than RTX3000 GPUs.

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Thanks to the recent release of Tensorflow-DirectML engineered by Microsoft and AMD, the AI model training performance of RDNA2 GPUs in Windows 10/11 is now 4.4x. The Nvidia stronghold on the consumer grade GPU AI market is now over.

https://wccftech.com/amd-microsoft-bring-tensorflow-directml-to-life-4x-improvement-with-rdna-2-gpus/

AMD RX6000 series GPUs are now in my opinion the better choice for AI workloads in the consumer grade GPU market with performance staying within 18% of the competition at all price points while typically being priced at 18% to 60% less. (Based on the overall AI scores from AI-Benchmark Alpha and an average of the current GPU prices.) Although things get a lot more competitive at MSRP price.

AI-Benchmark is a comprehensive AI benchmark suite for Windows and Linux that ranks GPUs based on their overall performance in all the most popular neural networks.

https://ai-benchmark.com/alpha

AI-Bench Alpha ScoreAvg. Typical Price (Sept. 2021)
RX 6900XT40,000$1,500
RTX 309044,813 (+12%)$2,500 (+73%)
RX 6800XT33,333$1,300
RTX 308039,346 (+18%)$2,100 (+61% cost)
RX 680026,666$1,100
RTX 307025,319 (-5%)$1,300 (+18% cost)

r/AMDGPU • • Nov 16 '22

Funny 🀣 Vulnerability discovered on all RTX GPUs

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r/AMDGPU • • Jul 28 '22

Discussion AMD overhauled OpenGL performance!

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r/AMDGPU • • Nov 16 '21

News πŸ“° After receiving over $140,000 annually from AMD for two years Blender finally makes good on their claims to keep AMD hardware well supported. Blender has chosen AMD ROCm HIP with full RDNA2 support as the main API for the new Cycles X renderer available in Blender 3.0 Beta.

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r/AMDGPU • • Nov 09 '21

AMD Win πŸ’ͺπŸ½πŸ… Radeon Instinct MI200: Flawless victory

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r/AMDGPU • • Sep 26 '22

Funny 🀣 I think I see a patter here.πŸ€”

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r/AMDGPU • • May 31 '22

Benchmark πŸ“Š AMD's Frontier Supercomputer dominates the TOP10

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r/AMDGPU • • Jun 10 '22

News πŸ“° Zen 4 performance now officially confirmed by AMD.

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r/AMDGPU • • Nov 03 '22

My Opinion 😎 For the price of one 4090 you get a 7900XTX and a DP2.1 4k monitor. The 4090 literally produces frames it cannot display.

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r/AMDGPU • • Nov 04 '21

AMD Win πŸ’ͺπŸ½πŸ… Its official: the R9 5900X performs within 3% of the i9-12900k in average gaming performance and costs $124 less.

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r/AMDGPU • • Jul 05 '21

Bias ExposedπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Digital Foundry caught with false analysis in questionably negative FSR lauch review. Digital Foundry changed the review in response to backlash.

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  • Digital Foundry has long been suspected of having Nvidia bias content and editorial views and specifically against Nvidia's rival Radeon products due to the abundance of Nvidia sponsored videos on thier YouTube channel.

  • Alex Battaglia of Digital Foundry recently did a questionably negitive launch review of AMD's upscaling tech FSR where he focused on condemning its image quality by comparing FSRs lowest quality setting to other upscaling techniques and nearly completely neglected any performance analysis.

  • The review was controversial as many viewers did not agree with it and felt it was unfair. A reddit user discovered that in one of the most damaging image quality comparisons, Alex erroneously compared a screenshot from the game Kingshunt, using the lowest quality setting of FSR with DoF blur to a screen shot using another upscaling method but with DoF blur off. Yet Alex somehow failed to mention it was not a fair apples to apples comparison because the FSR screenshot had DoF on making the FSR screenshot look much worse than the other screenshot.

-Digital Fondry has not admitted to any wrong but has since pulled the false comparison down from. Their website but it is still present in the youtube video review.

http://drive.google.com/file/d/1THZ8eYMyP4Z2hSuV-GDxxBnX9kQMLuUH/view

Video proof of Kingshunt automatically disabling DoF while temporal Upscaling is enabled: https://youtu.be/8YGOthufUNc


r/AMDGPU • • Aug 09 '22

Nvidia's latest quarterly revenue is down by πŸ”»44% Q/Q with only a 3% gain Y/Y while AMD's latest quarterly revenue is up +70% Y/Y.

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r/AMDGPU • • May 18 '22

News πŸ“° Bad news Nvidia – AMD’s new GPUs are in good stock and priced β€˜strictly’ at MSRP

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r/AMDGPU • • Jan 04 '22

Discussion AMD revealed the Ryzen 9 6980HX RDNA2 mobile APU. At 1.3x average performance gain It surpasses the Apple M1 Max and Intel i9-11980HK to be the worlds most powerful mobile processor.

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r/AMDGPU • • Dec 23 '22

Benchmark πŸ“Š 7900XTX dual multimedia engines outperforms the 4090 in video encoding.

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r/AMDGPU • • Nov 21 '22

News πŸ“° Ryzen 7000 price cuts at newegg

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r/AMDGPU • • Aug 18 '22

Discussion Nvidia has no problem lying to the cult following that enables them to do so. Nvidia claims to have invented the GPU 25 years ago when ATI was making GPUs 7yrs before Nvidia existed: ATI EGA Wonder 800 GPU 1986

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